Modernism and Time Machines / / Charles M. Tung.
Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: MODERNISM, TIME MACHINES AND THE DEFAMILIARISATION OF TIME
- 1 THE HETEROCHRONIC PAST AND SIDEWISE HISTORICITY: T. S. ELIOT, PABLO PICASSO AND MURRAY LEINSTER
- 2 ALTERNATE HISTORY AND THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PRESENTS: VIRGINIA WOOLF, PHILIP K. DICK AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
- 3 TIME LAGS AND DIFFERENTIAL PACE: BULLET TIME, WILLIAM FAULKNER AND JESSICA HAGEDORN
- 4 TEMPORAL SCALE, THE FAR FUTURE AND INHUMAN TIMES: FORESIGHT IN WELLS AND WOOLF, TIME TRAVEL IN OLAF STAPLEDON AND TERRENCE MALICK
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX